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• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  requirement for MIT. All students must take 4 CI's during their time at MIT. Two ... 3 paged comic script. Like I said in the post, this class is ... actions depicted in each panel well since page space is so precious. The

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  - I got a book on HTML from the library. I made a few HTML pages, but ... managing the social media pages.","Sophomore IAP - I took 16.682 Momentum, a ... robust.",Sophomore spring - I UROPed at the MIT Media Lab working on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What do you see now? they say genius likes to alternate between the soil and the sky

  

  personally have internalized the frame of the goal, the objective, the meme of ... shortened and for a moment he stood at the edge and the world shrunk until ... of what exists. The genius rejects those constraints to stare deeply at

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  fall. People are good at calibrating on the physical level of risk they ... on the ground, and stare at the wall. I'm pretty sure I had to do that ... right.—A year ago I moved to the US to study at MIT, and decided not to

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... tech intern doing web development things. This was my third summer ... ’ve tried regularly working out at many points in my life, and this summer was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  .  Being an international black student puts me in this interesting position ... black female. Even at home, I’ve been in resorts where my own fellow ... and cloaked bigotry at every turn, and waking up every morning to hear

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  and then left a UROP, I worked all summer, I won a medal at Head of the ... did it. My grades aren't in yet, but I think I did it. At the start of ... have no class on Fridays. I'm going to spend less time on psets, at

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  , I fully expected to be crushed at every corner my soul tried to run ... and challenges, just a little shocked at how much it actually hurts.  I ... that context as I continue with sophomore year has been calming, at least

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on ... of FOMO immediately resonated with me, almost to the point at which it ... apps that would budget my day into tinier and tinier chunks. at some

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  a survey of American cinema, with some international selections from ... (1960) with the score performed lived by the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall ... Bartollo, Sam Magee, and the freshman from the Arts at MIT advising seminar to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  are and what drives you. Mentioning your multiple international awards ... that I've experienced at MIT so far. Last Sunday, I knocked out two psets ... briefly thought that the "oxygen" at the end of the word CITGO on that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  was it at all appropriate to have kid-friendly reenactments of trials ... Salem also has the “site of one of the major international ports in the ... romantic lighthouse. The island-park closed at sunset so we could not watch

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  fall (after spending the summer at home), to make sure that I wasn’t just ... at the same time, it’s been a really amazing thing to have all these ... without p-sets. Spoiler alert: I don't. And at this point it all goes to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle ... , Spanish House, Chocolate City, and International House.) New House doesn ... cooking team. This means that, every Friday, I show up in the kitchen at 4pm

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  time in hospitals, labs, or perhaps as an intern at a nearby firm?) No ... (Come to the 3rd floor of the Student Center at 12 noon on Friday of ... something you know and learning everything you never knew all at the very same

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Events

  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  corner, the international team weBabble reloaded their batteries and tested ... it out in five previous matches, and at the kickoff they were shoved ... Orientation hits. Also, I learned how to work a lathe, use a bandsaw at an angle

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  have spent their summer interning at big labs, writing complex programs ... sprinkles..) Yesterday was my last day of work at Schubert's Bakery in San ... to work at the bakery over break (which I probably will, because it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  cultural climate in which I grew up. All those internalized standards became ... humanities at MIT were very much a thing, and Anne Hunter of course 6 fame, who ... fourth grade. I find that unbelievably cool. At the time we were applying

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my ... with the fifth greatest amphibian diversity. At the same time, Mexico ... them more susceptible to predators and to disease. In addition, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  happened since; I'm sure I could write pages of excuses about why I haven ... Shuli answering questions about life at MIT. It was a surprisingly ... , aka attitude, at certain times (point the antenna at the ground

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020